Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 05:30:07 -0400 From: "samuel kirk" <dmx3040@hotmail.com> To: jerrymc@msu.edu, zhane1@gmail.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hi please help Message-ID: <BAY10-F549C68C87757CB55850CDDB93E0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <E1DIp8q-0001tr-Mh@sys34.mail.msu.edu>
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Hi dear jerry one question is what do u mean intel clone and second mine is a sempron 2200 on a msi board i just would liek if u can tell me if it is supported sinc eimn having trouble finding it and third i was wondering if u can tell me and i dont knwo much about the i386 stuff going on but i think im sure ad sempron 2200 will be using i386 please reply soon thank-you >From: "Jerold McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> >To: zhane H <zhane1@gmail.com> >CC: questions@FreeBSD.org, dmx3040@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: Hi please help >Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:34:56 -0400 > >zhane H writes: > >>Hi dear staff at freebsd > >NOTE: FreeBSD does not have a "staff". Everyone is a volunteer. >But people understand what you mean by your greeting. > >>How may i check whether the hardware in my pc is supporte by freebsd >>5.3 > >If you look on the FreeBSD web site at: http://www.freebsd.org/ >you will see two releases listed over on the right hand side of the page. >Under each there is a link called 'Hardware Notes' which will take you >to a page that lists types of CPU. Click on one of those and you >will get a list of hardware categories. Click on those to get specific >lists of hardware devices. If you can find your hardware in those lists, >you should have no problem. The difficult thing comes up when you have >an item such as a sound card which uses the same chip as listed in one >of the devices but it doesn't list your specific device model. Most of the >time, it will also work, but no-one has tested it so they don't know for >sure. > >> and also i would liek to ask whcih one of freebsd do i install as i >>dont understand if i ahve to do i386 or some other one im instaling it >>on a msi board amd sempron 2200 with samsung cd-rw and a 10 gig >>seagate hdd > >If your CPU is an Intel type (including AMD 'clone') then choose i386 >type. Only if you know your CPU is one of the others such as Alpha >or sparc64 should you install for those. All regular PCs are the i386 >type. > >NOTE, by the way, that FreeBSD 5.4 is scheduled to come out at the end >of this month. It will have many improvements over 5.3. You may not >want to wait to start hands on learning, but you may want to just install >and experiment for now and then completely reinstall when 5.4 is released. > >Good luck, > >////jerry > >> >>Please contact me back as soon possible as im in very urgent need of help! >> >> >>Sincerely Zhan >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > >
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